New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-01-26
The New Minnesota Senator.
Annual Alliance Meeting.

,?le following call for the sixth annual
meeting of the Minnesota State Farmers
alliance was issued recently.
The Minnesota State Farmers alliance
will assemble at the market hall in St.
Paul on Wednesday, Feb. 2, at IL o'clock
a. m, and continue in session until it's
work is &C mpleted. Conferences with rep
'resentatives OF the grange and other farm
er organizations, knights OF Labor
and other'labor assemblies, will be held on
the afternoon OF the second day OF the
meeting. The state alliance is composed
OF it's officers the deputy state lecturers,
and one delegate from each county and
subordinate alliance in the state. No per-
81 on can represent a subordinate alliance
in the meeting OF the state alliance
unless he is a member thereof,
duly elected delegate or alternate by
his alliance. The per capita tax to the
state alliance was due Oct. l, and alliances
that are in arrears are. respectfully re-
quested to forward the same to the
secretary on or before the first day
OF the meeting, in order to be entitled to
representation. The headquarters OF the
executive committee of the alliance will be
at the Windsor hotel, St. Paul, where
they can be found at all times when not
attending sessions OF the alliance In issu-
ing the call we wish to congratulate you
upon the growth OF the order, but more
especially upon the adoption OF our prin-
ciples by the people OF the state :at large.
The entire press OF the state is sounding,
explaining and defining your measures.
The political parties were pleased to pre-
sent your principles as leading planks
in their platforms. The legislators
argu ments and freely pledged themselves to
enact measures 'of,relief distated by you.
The governor.el elect, lin his ami al message,
not only approves OF our measures but
presents practical suggestions foroonsider-
alton The passage OF the oleomargarine
law by congress- and the Interstate COM
merce bill soon ito become a law, are evil
dences OF the growth of our principles in
the country at large. We trust that you
will come together alto state meeting
with an earnest determination to main
tain your ground until you have accom-
plished that for which you have organized.
BY direction OF the executive committee.
Lord Iddesleigh WAS held in Westminster
abbey.
The chief clerk OF the Paris Postoffice
has stolen $40, 600 in postal money or
ders and fled.
Timothy Harrington, Parnellite member
OF parliament for Dublin, has been called
to the Irish bar.
The Chinese government has agreed to
pay $125, 900 for the damages incurred by
the attack upon the American nissiona-
ries in China.
A man named George Franklin Amber
son, who describes himself as an American
solicitor, aged thirty-seven, has been ar
rested IN London charged with swindling
Charles Deakin OF Susquehannah, Pa, out
OF 100000 while pretending to be engaged
in recovering property of Deakin's ances-
tors in England.
A frightful accident happened in London.
The Hebrew Dramatic club gave an enter
tainment at theatre in Princess street.
Spitalfields, which was attended by Eve
hundred persons. mostly Jews. Some one
In the gallery, doubtless for a Joke shouted
s Fret The gas WAS immediately turned
on on at the meter and a terrible panic ensued
The people rushed in a solid mass for the
doors. and numbers were trodden. When
the panic had subsidized it was found that
twelve women and five youths had been
trampled to death and many others in.
jured. q e. s.
One OF the most blinding billiards.. nc.
companied with a heavy snowfall. RACED
in Montreal for % hours. The cold w,s
intense. and LOGON otion was interrunted
,Ihe st orm was the worst known there in
70 years and will cost the Grand Trunk
ana Canadian oil Pacific railroads $50, 900.
All the London newspapers publish the